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Artist & Band information for:cn-Sunshine Rock 3 Warren Zevon
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Warren Zevon Other Page, The
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The unofficial Warren Zevon page
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Zevon Fan Expressions
A fan site dedicated to Warren with a photo gallery, discography, lyrics, and memorabilia.
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A Zevon Page
Includes lyrics, sound files, photographs and set lists for Warren Zevon.
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RollingStone.com: Warren Zevon
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Tribute to Warren Zevon
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DaveMcNally.com: Warren Zevon
Lyrics, listed by album.
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WarrenZevon.com
The official website for Warren Zevon. Includes news, tour dates and photographs.
http://www.warrenzevon.com/ |
The Zevon Fan Web Page
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Mr. Bad Example (Audio CD),15 October, 1991
List price $15.98
WZ at the hight of his art " Mr Bad Example " / 5
As the first bars of the somewhat uncharacteristically heavy riff of "Finishing Touches" fill your ears, you know that you are going to have 45 minutes or so of thrills and maybe the odd surprise. The opening track continues to grow verse by verse, chorus by chorus with one of Waddy Wachtel's trade-mark guitar solos punctuating the musical melee with power and panache.
Zevon's vocal is of course perfect in tone and in delivery of the familiarly bitter lyric.
"Suzi Lightning" comes next. A beautiful pop ballad with a less than sunny lyric,it is a deseptivaly dark song
"Model Citizen" is a song that seems to have been written by a man on the very edge of madness. The thought of a man showing his children a lathe infering a threat when they have been naughty is sinister in the extreme. Another example of the genius of WZ.
Next we are taken to the seedy side of Mr Zevon's LA with "Angel dressed in black". As he talks of sitting smoking crack you can almost smell the damp and filth in whatever hellhole the scene is set. Musically it is rememisent of early 1980's new-wave with Waddy Wachtel's production spinning a strange but effective web of sound regularly opening out into the catchy pop chorus. A delight, all be it a frustrating one.
So, to the title track. "Mr Bad Example" is to all intents and purposes a masterpiece. The wit and humour of the lyric are unsurpassed in modern popular music and it is a rare joy to hear two of the world's finest drummers, Jim Keltner and the late Jeff Porcaro, playing so intricately on such an up tempo yet strangely subtle track.
Next is the beautiful "Renegade". Soft,sweet yet, once again very bitter. A song of sadness and of lost dreams. I must admit though I find it strange that a man born in Chicago and raised in LA should have such an affinity with the Confederacy.
"Heartache Spoken Here" is a great country song especially from a writer not usually known for country music. It seems to me very much a song from a Father to his teenage Daughter telling her to come to him when she needs comfort when her fledgling love life goes awry. More fine guitar work keeps the feel, so its all good fun.
"Quite Ugly One Morning" is one of the more unusual tracks on the album with David Lindley going mad with his Saz and Cumbus, not to mention his Lap-steel guitar. Its a powerful song with a strong riff carrying it forward. And although the lyric is truely poetic it is also as crazy as a bird indoors.
"Things to do in Denver when Your Dead" is another fine piece of music with a smooth soulful feel. Jim Keltners drumming Pushing things along solidly and with the rest of the band sweeping along behind Zevons magical vocal.
Finaly "Searching For a Heart" a true pop song. David Letterman's favourite description of love is contained in the lyric. "You can't start it like a car, You cant stop it with a gun".
All in all this is one of my favourite WZ albums along with Life'll kill Ya and The Wind. It's a fine piece of work and I highly recomend it to both fans of the late great Warren Zevon and those looking for something new to listen to.
Tom Fardon..........
Song "Tule’s Blues"
(Warren Zevon)
Oh Tule, it's on account of you that I've been weeping
Here behind my hand
It's lonesome in my heart's land, as the sands of the desert
Oh, tell me, why was it always you, who, through the changes
You, who always sang and played while the green vespers rang
In the heart of the hillside
It's a sad song we always seem to be singing to each other
You and me, sweet and slightly out of key
Like the sound of a running down calliope
Oh Tule, it's once I was your knight in golden armor
With the sun behind my hair
My music filled the air with symbols and lightning
Oh Tule, now can't you see I'm changing like the seasons?
My hair is growing dark
And there's no room left in the ark for a lark with a broken wing
It's a sad song we always seem to be singing to each other
And a child's voice, so tender and out of tune
Keeps a'praying I'll be singing home soon
Oh Tule, it's on account of you that I'll be leaving
'Cross the deep salt sea
Whatever wild worlds I may see, will be empty without you
It's a sad song we always seem to be singing to each other
And a child's voice, so tender and out of tune
Keeps a'praying I'll be singing home soon
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WARREN ZEVON, R. KELLY IN NEWS NOTES (groovevolt.com)
Rhino Entertainment will release Warren Zevon ?s Excitable Boy , The Envoy , and Stand in the Fire , in an expanded and remastered format, March 27. The discs will include previously-unreleased bonus tracks and will be available at all retail outlets and at www.rhino.com for a suggested retail price of $18.98, $11.98, and $11.98 respectively.
Quick Spins (Washington Post)
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R.E.M., producer Lee team up for album (Akron Beacon Journal)
News on upcoming CD releases: R.E.M. -- singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills -- will record their 14th studio album this spring with Grammy Award-winning producer Jacknife Lee. Lee produced U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
Top-albums list reminds us it's the song that counts (The Morning Call)
At a time when CD sales are wobbling like Britney Spears, the National Association of Record Manufacturers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have fought back with a celebration of the greatest albums ever.
Get Into The Act (The Morning Call)
There's a lot of Lehigh Valley hard rock history in Bone Daddy. Guitarist/vocalist Jeff Smith was the last frontman for Magnum, one of the Valley's most successful '80s bands. Guitarist Bill DeHart has been playing the ax for almost 30 years, leading his own band, ''DeHart,'' as well as other bands. Drummer Tim Nagle kept time for the high-profile group The Armadillos. At 24, new bassman Will ...
'Dark Side' or 'Sgt. Pepper'? (Pensacola News Journal)
Area readers offered hundreds of albums for our own "Pensacola's 200" best albums list.
Ian Wallace (WOI Radio Group)
One of the most in-demand drummers of the rock era, Ian Wallace toured and recorded with some of the most influential and high-profile acts of the last half-century. With a four-decade spanning career, the prolific drummer will be remembered for his talent and versatility.
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Tool is being forced to reschedule their current North American tour because drummer Danny Carey has torn a bicep muscle. Carey underwent surgery on Wednesday and is "recovering well," according to the band's Web site. Rescheduled tour dates will be announced shortly.
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